Suppressing resonance in ultra long motor cable

ABSTRACT

The disclosed examples provide an easy and low-loss solution to reduce voltage stress on motor and cable in inverter-fed motor systems by suppressing resonances on the motor cable with apparatus coupled between the inverter output and the motor cable. Disclosed examples include various methods to mitigate voltage stress on both motor and cable, including an output filter circuit with a cable side parallel RL circuit between an inverter output and a motor cable, and an inverter to provide an inverter output signal to the output filter circuit to drive a load through the motor cable, where the cable side parallel RL circuit includes a resistor coupled in series between the inverter output and the motor cable, and an inductor connected in parallel with the resistor.

INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2018/0138849 A1 to Royak et al.,entitled CURRENT CONTROL OF MOTOR DRIVES WITH OUTPUT SINEWAVE FILTER,and filed as U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/531,090 on Nov. 15,2016 is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The subject matter disclosed herein relates to power conversion, andmore specifically to suppressing or controlling motor cable resonance.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Various aspects of the present disclosure are now summarized tofacilitate a basic understanding of the disclosure, wherein this summaryis not an extensive overview of the disclosure, and is intended neitherto identify certain elements of the disclosure, nor to delineate thescope thereof. Rather, the primary purpose of this summary is to presentthe concept of the disclosure in a simplified form prior to the moredetailed description that is presented hereinafter. The presentdisclosure provides various methods to mitigate voltage stress on bothmotor cable and motor. Examples include an output filter circuit with acable side parallel RL circuit between an inverter output and a motorcable, and an inverter to provide an inverter output signal to theoutput filter circuit to drive a load through the motor cable, where thecable side parallel RL circuit includes a resistor coupled in seriesbetween the inverter output and the motor cable, and an inductorconnected in parallel with the resistor. Example methods includeconnecting an output filter circuit with a cable side parallel RLcircuit between an inverter output and a motor cable, and providing aninverter output signal from the inverter output to the output filtercircuit to drive a load through the motor cable.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram.

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram.

FIG. 4 is a simplified schematic diagram.

FIG. 5 is a graph.

FIG. 6 is a graph.

FIG. 7 is a simplified schematic diagram.

FIG. 8 is a graph.

FIG. 9 is a graph.

FIG. 10 is a graph.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Referring now to the figures, several embodiments or implementations arehereinafter described in conjunction with the drawings, wherein likereference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout, andwherein the various features are not necessarily drawn to scale. In thefollowing discussion and in the claims, the terms “including”,“includes”, “having”, “has”, “with”, or variants thereof are intended tobe inclusive in a manner similar to the term “comprising”, and thusshould be interpreted to mean “including, but not limited to . . . ”Also, the term “couple” or “couples” is intended to include indirect ordirect electrical or mechanical connection or combinations thereof. Forexample, if a first device couples to or is coupled with a seconddevice, that connection may be through a direct electrical connection,or through an indirect electrical connection via one or more interveningdevices and connections.

FIG. 1 shows an example industrial system 100 that includes a type motordrive power conversion system 102 that receives and converts ACelectrical input power from a source 104 to drive a motor load 106through a long motor cable 108 having a cable length 110. The AC inputand output of the converter 102 are three phase configurations in theillustrated examples. Other implementations are possible using anycombination of single or multiphase inputs and outputs to drive a motor106 or other type of load.

The motor drive 102 receives single or multiphase AC input power from apower source 104 and converts this to a DC bus voltage using therectifier 114 which provides a DC output voltage to a DC bus circuit 116having one or more capacitors CDC. The example power conversion system102 in FIG. 1 is a voltage source converter (VSC) motor drive, whichincludes an input filter 112, a rectifier 114, a DC bus circuit 116 withDC bus capacitors CDC1 and CDC2 that define a center node 117 (e.g.,zero volts), an inverter 118 with an inverter output 119 (e.g., outputphase lines 119U, 119V and 119W), an output filter circuit (e.g.,filter) 120 with output terminals 121U, 121V and 121W, and a controlleror control circuit 122. The example three phase AC power source 104provides AC phase voltage signals Ea, Eb and Ec to the inputs of theinput filter 112, and the filter 112 provides filtered AC input voltagesignals Va, Vb and Vc to the respective phase input lines A, B and C ofthe rectifier 114.

The rectifier 114 can be a passive rectifier including one or more dioderectifier components, or may be an active front end (AFE) system withone or more rectifier switching devices RS1, RS2, RS3, RS4, RS5 and RS6(e.g., IGBTs, etc.) operated according to rectifier switching controlsignals from the controller 122 to convert input AC electrical power toprovide the DC bus voltage in the DC bus circuit 116. Otherconfigurations are possible in which the drive 102 receives input DCpower from an external source (not shown) to provide an input to theinverter 118, in which case the rectifier 114 may be omitted. Theillustrated motor drive 102 is a voltage source converter configurationincluding one or more capacitive storage elements in the DC bus circuit116. The DC bus circuit 116 may include a single capacitor CDC ormultiple capacitors (e.g., CDC1 and CDC2 in FIG. 1) connected in anysuitable series, parallel and/or series/parallel configuration toprovide a DC bus capacitance across the inverter input terminals.

The controller 122 in one example includes a processor and an associatedelectronic memory (not shown in FIG. 1) which stores programinstructions to implement a closed loop control program to regulate orcontrol one or more of voltage, current, speed, torque, etc. Thecontroller 122 in certain embodiments implements a motor speed and/orposition and/or torque control scheme in which the controller 122selectively provides the switching control signals to the inverterswitches S1-S6 in a closed and/or open-loop fashion according to one ormore setpoint values such as a motor speed setpoint. The setpoint in oneexample is a signal or value generated by the controller 122, or a fixedsetpoint value, or such setpoint value can be received from an externalsystem (not shown). In practice, the motor drive 102 may also receive atorque setpoint and/or a position (e.g., angle) setpoint, and suchdesired signals or values (setpoint(s)) may be received from a userinterface and/or from an external device such as a distributed controlsystem, etc. (not shown). As used herein, a signal can be an analogsignal, such as a current or a voltage signal, or a signal can includedigital values generated or consumed by the controller 122.

As shown in FIG. 2 below, various concepts of the present disclosure maybe implemented in association with current source converterarchitectures in which a DC bus circuit 116 includes one or moreinductive storage elements, such as one or more series-connectedinductors situated between the source of DC power (e.g., rectifier 114or external DC source) and the input of the inverter 118. In otherpossible implementations, the motor drive 102 includes a direct DC inputto receive input power from an external source (not shown), and incertain embodiments the rectifier 114 and DC bus circuit 116 may both beomitted.

In certain examples, a transformer (not shown) can be connected betweenthe output filter 120 and the motor cable 108. In one example, theinverter 118 operates according to pulse width modulated (PWM) inverterswitching control signals from the controller 122. The example PWMinverter 118 provides output currents and voltages that include a numberof pulses, and the output filter circuit 120 reduces high frequencycontent caused by pulse width modulation of the inverter switches.Conventional output filters designed protect a motor from high frequencycontent caused by the PWM operation of an inverter, do not adequatelyprotect the motor cable from voltage stresses, particularly for motorcables having a very long cable length. For example, extremely longmotor cables (e.g., 10-20 km or more) are sometimes used in conjunctionwith electronic submersible pump (ESP) motors 106 for deep well pumpingapplications and other systems that have a motor driven through anoutput filter. In such application, an output transformer is used, suchas a step-up transformer, to boost the motor drive output voltage,allowing use of a low-voltage drive to power a medium voltage inductionmotor, and/or to reduce FR losses and facilitate use of a smallerdiameter cable wire for long cable runs between the motor drive and thedriven motor.

Overvoltage may occur on cables and motors due to a long cable resonancephenomenon. In addition, the suppression of the overvoltage caused bylong cable resonance is important with respect to the insulation ofcables and motors. Disclosed examples provide different example filtercircuits for use in combination with voltage source inverter (VSI) andcurrent source inverter (CSI) power conversion systems as shown in FIGS.1 and 2, respectively. In this regard, certain applications employoutput filters between the motor drive inverter output and thetransformer primary in order to suppress reflected wave voltage spikesassociated with pulse width modulated (PWM) variable frequency drives.However, long cable resonance is not the ringing due to inverterswitching, and the resonance frequency associated with the long cableresonance is independent from the variable frequency drive (VFD) type(VSI or CSI) and switching devices used. The example inverter 118includes a DC input with first and second (e.g., positive and negativeDC bus lines) and the three phase inverter output 119U, 119V and 119W(e.g., for output phase lines U, V and W, respectively). The inverter118 also includes switching devices S1-S6 (e.g., IGBTs, GCTs, SGCTs orother switch types) that are individually coupled between acorresponding line of the DC input and a corresponding phase (U, V or W)of the inverter output 119. The controller 122 provides inverterswitching control signals to operate the switches S1-S6 to provide athree phase inverter output signal (e.g., voltages Vu, Vv, Vw) at theinverter output 119.

The output filter circuit 120 includes a first filter circuit (e.g.,first inductors L1U, L1V and L1W and capacitors CU, CV and CW) coupledwith the filter input 119, as well as a parallel RL circuit 124 coupledbetween the first filter circuit and the motor cable 108. In thismanner, the cable side parallel RL circuit 124 is coupled between aninverter output 119 and a motor cable 108. In the example of FIG. 1, theinverter output 119 is a three phase output, the output filter circuit120 is a three phase circuit, and the cable side parallel RL circuit 124is a three phase circuit. In the example three phase system of FIG. 1,each phase of the cable side parallel RL circuit 124 includes a resistorRU, RV or RW coupled in series between the corresponding inverter output119U, 119V or 119W and the motor cable 108 at the corresponding filteroutput terminal 121U, 121V or 121W, respectively. Each phase of thecable side parallel RL circuit 124 also includes an inductor L2U, L2V orL2W connected in parallel with the corresponding resistor RU, RV or RW.In certain examples, the inductors L2U, L2V, L2W of the cable sideparallel RL circuit 124 have inductance values determined according tothe characteristic impedance of the motor cable 108. In this manner, thein-line inductors L2U, L2V and L2W conduct current at the appropriatefrequencies to drive the motor 106 efficiently, while the in-lineresistors RU, RV and RW suppress or mitigate (e.g., reduce) voltagestresses on the long motor cable 108.

The disclosed filter circuitry examples 120 with included cable sideparallel RL circuits 124 advantageously filter the inverter outputharmonics to mitigate or minimize (e.g., reduce) the harmonics injectedinto the motor cable 108. Moreover, the output filter 120 also mitigatesor minimizes (e.g., reduces) voltage amplification as well as at leastpartially eliminating (e.g., reducing) the harmonics output to the motorcable 108 over a desired range of motor operation conditions. This is incontrast to conventional output filter approaches that operated only inone of two categories. One approach attempted to decrease the dv/dt ofan inverter output waveform so as to reduce the amplitude of reflectedvoltage through inverter output reactors, inverter output dv/dt filtersor inverter output sine-wave filters. Another approach attempted to thedv/dt of inverter output waveform so as to reduce the amplitude ofreflected voltage through decrease the mismatch between a cable surgeimpedance and the motor impedance so as to reduce the amplitude of thereflected voltage through line termination network (LTN) or cableterminator circuitry at the motor terminals. However, certainapplications cannot accommodate additional motor end circuitry. Neitherof these approaches meet both requirements for mitigates or minimizes(e.g., reduces) voltage amplification as well as at least partiallyeliminating (e.g., reducing) the harmonics output to the motor cable108. The filter 120 can be used in other applications apart from motordrive output filtering for long cable motor drive systems.

The power conversion system 102 of FIG. 1 is a voltage source converterwith a DC bus capacitor (e.g., CDC1, CDC2) coupled with the DC input ofthe inverter 118. The output filter circuit 120 in this example includesa first filter circuit and the parallel RL circuit 124. The first filtercircuit of each phase includes a first inductor (e.g., L1U, L1V or L1W)connected between the inverter output 119 and a corresponding internalnode (e.g., 123U, 123V or 123W), as well as a corresponding filtercapacitor (e.g., CU, CV or CW) connected between the internal node and areference node 125 (e.g., for the Y-connected filter capacitorconfiguration of FIG. 1). In this example, the resistor RU, RV or RW andthe inductor L2U, L2V or L2W of the cable side parallel RL circuit 124are connected in parallel with one another between the correspondinginternal node 123U, 123V or 123W and the motor cable 108 via thecorresponding filter output terminal 121U, 121V or 121W. In thisexample, the individual resistors RU, RV and RW of the cable sideparallel RL circuit 124 include a first terminal connected to thecorresponding internal node 123U, 123V or 123W, and a second terminalconnected to the corresponding phase line of the motor cable 108. Also,the individual inductors L2U, L2V and L2W of the circuit 124 include afirst terminal connected to the corresponding internal node 123U, 123Vor 123W, as well as a second terminal connected to the motor cable 108.

FIG. 2 shows another example implementation that includes a currentsource converter motor drive power conversion system 102 with aninverter 118 driving a motor load 106 through an output filter and along motor cable. The CSC example of FIG. 2 is generally as describedabove, with the following modifications to the DC circuit 116 and theoutput filter circuit 120. In this example, the power conversion system102 is a current source converter with one or more DC link inductors(e.g., LDC1 and LDC2) coupled with the DC input of the inverter 118. Theoutput filter circuit 120 in this example includes a first filtercircuit and the parallel RL circuit 124. The first filter circuit ineach individual phase of the CSC example in FIG. 2 includes a capacitor(e.g., CU, CV or CW) connected between the inverter output 119 and thereference node 125 (e.g., a Y-configuration). In each phase, moreover,the resistor RU, RV or RW and the corresponding inductor L2U, L2V or L2Wof the cable side parallel RL circuit 124 are connected in parallel withone another between the inverter output 119 and the motor cable 108(e.g., between the lines 119 and the output terminals 121).

FIG. 3 shows a method 300 to control (e.g., reduce) voltage stress on amotor cable. The disclosed subject matter includes a system as well as acomputer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions forperforming the acts and/or events of the various methods of thedisclosed subject matter. The example method 300 includes connecting, at302, an output filter circuit 120 with a cable side parallel RL circuit124 between an inverter output 119 and a motor cable 108. The method 300also includes providing, at 304, an inverter output signal (e.g., Vu,Vv, Vw) from the inverter output 119 to the output filter circuit 120 todrive a load 106 through the motor cable 108, for example, by operatingthe inverter 118 according to switching control signals from thecontroller 122. In one example, connecting the output filter circuit 120between the inverter output 119 and the motor cable 108 (at 302 in FIG.3) includes connecting a first inductor (e.g., L1U, L1V or L1W) betweenthe inverter output 119 and an internal node (e.g., 123U, 123V or 123W),connecting a capacitor (e.g., CU, CV or CW) between the internal nodeand a reference node (125), as well as connecting the resistor (e.g.,RU, RV or RW) and the inductor (e.g., L2U, L2V or L2W) of the cable sideparallel RL circuit 124 in parallel with one another between theinternal node and the motor cable 108 (e.g., as shown in FIG. 1 above).In certain examples, connecting the output filter circuit 120 (e.g., at302) between the inverter output 119 and the motor cable 108 includesconnecting a capacitor (e.g., CU, CV or CW) between the inverter output119 and a reference node 125, as well as connecting the resistor (e.g.,RU, RV or RW) and the inductor (e.g., L2U, L2V or L2W) of the cable sideparallel RL circuit 124 in parallel with one another between theinverter output 119 and the motor cable 108 (e.g., as shown in FIG. 2above).

Referring now to FIGS. 4-6, FIG. 4 shows a simplified example motordrive power conversion system 400 with a long motor cable and no outputfilter circuit. A graph 500 in FIG. 5 shows an example voltageamplification curve 502 for the cable of FIG. 4 with no output filtercircuit at different distances along the cable to the inverter outputover different frequencies of inverter output signal. In addition, FIG.6 shows voltage amplification curve 602 which is the two-dimensionalfront view of FIG. 5 for the cable of FIG. 4 with no output filtercircuit. In the illustrated examples, the distance of zero representsthe voltage amplification performance at the beginning of the motorcable 108 connected to the output filter 120, and increasing distancesrepresent positions in the cable 108 further toward the motor 106. InFIGS. 5 and 6, the cable length distance labeled “X” is the far end ofthe motor cable 108 at the motor 106. As seen in the graphs 500 and 600of FIGS. 5 and 6, the voltage amplification within the cable 108, andthe corresponding result in voltage stresses on the cable 108, aresignificant at multiple frequencies, and generally, the frequenciesdecrease with increasing motor cable length (e.g., cable length 110 inFIGS. 1 and 2 above).

Referring now to FIGS. 7-10, FIG. 8 shows another example voltageamplification curve for the cable of FIG. 1 with an output filtercircuit 120 as shown in FIG. 1 or 2 at different distances along a cableof a first length X to inverter output over different frequencies of theinverter output signal. In this example, the length X is the same as inthe example of FIGS. 4-6, and the voltage amplification and frequencyscales are the same in FIGS. 5, 6, 8 and 9. A graph 800 in FIG. 8 showsan example voltage amplification curve 802 for the motor cable 108 ofFIGS. 2 and 7 (length 110=X) with an output filter circuit 120 includingthe parallel RL circuit 124 described above. The curve 802 in FIG. 8illustrates significant reduction in the voltage amplification andcorresponding voltage stresses on the motor cable 108 due, at least inpart, to the parallel RL circuit 124 in the output filter circuitry 120for a given cable distance along the cable of the first distance fordifferent frequencies. In addition, a graph 900 in FIG. 9 shows thetwo-dimensional front view of FIG. 8. Comparing FIGS. 5 and 6 with FIGS.8 and 9, the use of the parallel RL circuit 124 advantageously providessignificant reduction in voltage amplification and correspondinglyreduced voltage stresses for a given motor cable 108. In one example,the distance X is 26.7 km. A graph 1000 in FIG. 10 shows another examplevoltage amplification curve 1002 for the cable 108 of FIG. 7 with theoutput filter circuit 120 and the parallel RL circuit 124 for differentdistances along the cable and different frequencies, for a longermaximum cable distance Y (Y>X). The graph 1000 illustrates that thedisclosed concepts apply to extremely long motor cable lengths 110, andthese concepts can be applied in reducing or mitigating voltage stresseson motor cables in a variety of applications requiring long motor cables108. In one example, Y is 41.7 km, and the resulting maximum voltageamplification in the curve 1002 is well limited to approximately 2.734.

In the preceding specification, various embodiments have been describedwith reference to the accompanying drawings. It will be evident thatvarious modifications and changes may be made thereto, and additionalembodiments may be implemented, without departing from the broader scopeof the invention as set forth in the claims that follow. Thespecification and drawings are accordingly to be regarded in anillustrative rather than restrictive sense.

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 3. A power conversion system, comprising: aninverter, including: a DC input, an inverter output, and a plurality ofswitching devices coupled between the DC input and the inverter outputto provide an inverter output signal at the inverter output; and anoutput filter circuit coupled between an inverter output and a motorcable to suppress resonances along the motor cable; wherein the outputfilter circuit includes a cable side parallel RL circuit coupled betweenthe inverter output and the motor cable, the cable side parallel RLcircuit including: a resistor coupled in series between the inverteroutput and the motor cable, and an inductor connected in parallel withthe resistor; wherein the power conversion system is a voltage sourceconverter with a DC bus capacitor coupled with the DC input of theinverter; wherein the output filter circuit includes: a first inductorconnected between the inverter output and an internal node, and acapacitor connected between the internal node and a reference node; andwherein the resistor and the inductor of the cable side parallel RLcircuit are connected in parallel with one another between the internalnode and the motor cable.
 4. The power conversion system of claim 3,wherein the resistor of the cable side parallel RL circuit includes: afirst terminal connected to the internal node, and a second terminalconnected to the motor cable; and wherein the inductor of the cable sideparallel RL circuit includes: a first terminal connected to the internalnode, and a second terminal connected to the motor cable.
 5. The powerconversion system of claim 3, wherein the inverter output is a threephase output, wherein the output filter circuit is a three phasecircuit, and wherein the cable side parallel RL circuit is a three phasecircuit.
 6. A power conversion system, comprising: an inverter,including: a DC input, an inverter output, and a plurality of switchingdevices coupled between the DC input and the inverter output to providean inverter output signal at the inverter output; and an output filtercircuit coupled between an inverter output and a motor cable to suppressresonances along the motor cable; wherein the output filter circuitincludes a cable side parallel RL circuit coupled between the inverteroutput and the motor cable, the cable side parallel RL circuitincluding: a resistor coupled in series between the inverter output andthe motor cable, and an inductor connected in parallel with theresistor; wherein the power conversion system is a current sourceconverter with a DC link inductor coupled with the DC input of theinverter; wherein the output filter circuit includes: a capacitorconnected between the inverter output and a reference node, thecapacitor including a first terminal connected directly to the inverteroutput, and a second terminal connected directly to the reference node;and wherein the resistor and the inductor of the cable side parallel RLcircuit are connected in parallel with one another between the inverteroutput and the motor cable.
 7. The power conversion system of claim 6,wherein the resistor of the cable side parallel RL circuit includes: afirst terminal connected to the inverter output, and a second terminalconnected to the motor cable; and wherein the inductor of the cable sideparallel RL circuit includes: a first terminal connected to the inverteroutput, and a second terminal connected to the motor cable.
 8. The powerconversion system of claim 6, wherein the inverter output is a threephase output, wherein the output filter circuit is a three phasecircuit, and wherein the cable side parallel RL circuit is a three phasecircuit.
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 10. A filter, comprising: a first filter circuitcoupled with a filter input; and a parallel RL circuit coupled betweenthe first filter circuit and a motor cable, the parallel RL circuitincluding: a resistor coupled in series between the first filter circuitand a filter output, and an inductor connected in parallel with theresistor; wherein the first filter circuit includes: a first inductorconnected between the filter input and an internal node, and a capacitorconnected between the internal node and a reference node; and whereinthe resistor and the inductor of the parallel RL circuit are connectedin parallel with one another between the internal node and the filteroutput.
 11. The filter of claim 10, wherein the resistor of the parallelRL circuit includes: a first terminal connected to the internal node,and a second terminal connected to the motor cable; and wherein theinductor of the parallel RL circuit includes: a first terminal connectedto the internal node, and a second terminal connected to the filteroutput.
 12. The filter of claim 10, wherein the filter input is a threephase input, wherein the filter circuit is a three phase circuit, andwherein the parallel RL circuit is a three phase circuit.
 13. A filter,comprising: a first filter circuit coupled with a filter input; and aparallel RL circuit coupled between the first filter circuit and a motorcable, the parallel RL circuit including: a resistor coupled in seriesbetween the first filter circuit and a filter output, and an inductorconnected in parallel with the resistor; wherein the first filtercircuit includes a capacitor connected between the filter input and areference node, the capacitor including a first terminal connecteddirectly to the filter input, and a second terminal connected directlyto the reference node; and wherein the resistor and the inductor of theparallel RL circuit are connected in parallel with one another betweenthe filter input and the filter output.
 14. The filter of claim 13,wherein the resistor of the parallel RL circuit includes: a firstterminal connected to the filter input, and a second terminal connectedto the filter output; and wherein the inductor of the parallel RLcircuit includes: a first terminal connected to the filter input, and asecond terminal connected to the filter output.
 15. The filter of claim13, wherein the filter input is a three phase input, wherein the filtercircuit is a three phase circuit, and wherein the parallel RL circuit isa three phase circuit.
 16. The filter of claim 13, wherein the inductorof the parallel RL circuit has an inductance value determined accordingto a characteristic impedance of a motor cable.
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 18. Amethod of reducing voltage stress on a motor cable, comprising:connecting an output filter circuit with a cable side parallel RLcircuit between an inverter output and a motor cable; and providing aninverter output signal from the inverter output to the output filtercircuit to drive a load through the motor cable; wherein connecting theoutput filter circuit between the inverter output and the motor cablecomprises: connecting a first inductor between the inverter output andan internal node; connecting a capacitor between the internal node and areference node; and connecting the resistor and the inductor of thecable side parallel RL circuit in parallel with one another between theinternal node and the motor cable.
 19. A method of reducing voltagestress on a motor cable, comprising: connecting an output filter circuitwith a cable side parallel RL circuit between an inverter output and amotor cable; and providing an inverter output signal from the inverteroutput to the output filter circuit to drive a load through the motorcable; wherein connecting the output filter circuit between the inverteroutput and the motor cable comprises: connecting a first terminal of acapacitor directly to the inverter output and connecting a secondterminal of the capacitor directly to a reference node; and connectingthe resistor and the inductor of the cable side parallel RL circuit inparallel with one another between the inverter output and the motorcable.
 20. The power conversion system of claim 3, wherein the inductorof the parallel RL circuit has an inductance value determined accordingto a characteristic impedance of the motor cable.
 21. The powerconversion system of claim 6, wherein the inductor of the parallel RLcircuit has an inductance value determined according to a characteristicimpedance of the motor cable.
 22. The filter of claim 10, wherein theinductor of the parallel RL circuit has an inductance value determinedaccording to a characteristic impedance of the motor cable.